WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE. His graphic novel GLOBAL FREQUENCY is being developed for television by Jerry Bruckheimer and FOX. He is the writer of the graphic novel RED, adapted into the film starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren. His next book is NORMAL from FSG.

FAQ 2apr12

I see you have an iPad in your EDC, curious what apps you’ve found useful/productive?

This is going to be some deep dark tech nerd shit right here, isn’t it?

Managing information is a big part of my job. So the topslice is:

Twitterific, for Twitter. Flipboard. Reeder, for reading Google Reader (which is wired into Pinboard for saving links and Instapaper for reserving long articles for later). BBC news app. Guardian for iPad in Newsstand. Foreign Policy for iPad. The Economist in Newsstand. These are all daily, sometimes hourly checkpoints for me. Can’t do without them.

For writing, I’m either in Plaintext or iA Writer — haven’t decided which I like better, a chunk of GUN MACHINE was written across both — or Quickoffice for iPad (which is currently being used more for reviewing documents).